Chapter 8 Freewheeling Chic and Beauty of Korea
Koreans are said to be a more right-brained people, with a developed sense of intuition, that is, they think according to their sensibilities rather than appealing to logic or reasoning. This type of thinking in which emotion takes precedence is also evident in traditional Korean architecture, porcelain, and garden culture, in which an aesthetic blend with nature is achieved. This structure of the Korean conscious comprises objective evidence for why, for example, adjectives are relatively highly developed in the Korean language, and why Koreans can find calmness even when surrounded by chaos.
1. Emotional Korean
Koreans are generally described as emotional people. They sometimes require quick, yes/no decisions from others, and they are born with the ability to understand matters emotionally and intuitively. This section examines the origins of Korean ethnicity and attempts to link them to the developmental characteristics of the sensibilities and intuition of Koreans.